Mansor Rasouli

Mansor Rasouli

Mansour Raosuli is from Hashem Abad village near Margur area in Urmia. He has been active on the border and cooperated with IRGC in Urmia. After the video of his "interrogation" by Mossad agents on Iranian soil was released, he was moved to a safe house by the Intelligence Ministry and was later sentenced to death.

According to Iran International, Mansour Rasouli was a member of an IRGC team that intended to assassinate an Israeli citizen in Turkey, a high-ranking American general in Germany, and a journalist in France. Based on the report, his team uses a cooperative company named Dalapar to launder money and in return for its services to the IRGC, it is allowed to do illegal imports and exports. <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49698'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202204308306'> According to Iran International's diplomatic sources, the IRGC's Quds Force intended to use drug smugglers to perform three assassinations in Turkey, Germany, and France. A member of the Quds Force's Brigade 840 who was arrested in a European country admitted that he had received 150 thousand dollars to make preparations for these assassinations and was supposed to receive another million dollars after the assassinations were done. He was supposed to use his connections with drug smugglers to orchestrate these assassinations. Hours later, official Israeli media outlets announced that Mossad forces have traveled to Iran to interrogate Mansour Rasouli in front of a camera. Israeli TV channels also aired an audio file in which Mansour Rasouli introduced himself and says he had been involved in the mission for three assassinations. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49701'> <reference source='https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-features-61362258'> According to BBC Persian, Haaretz reported that Mansour Rasouli was arrested before undertaking an "alleged operation in Turkey, was interrogated on Iranian soil, and later released." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49699'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/IranIntl/status/1522953431178440704?s=20&t=jWfs1ODDXq1925p1xrA45g'> A video of Mansour Rasouli was released online in which he identifies himself as a civilian farmer in the northwest of the country and claimed that he was abducted by a team of kidnappers for ransom. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49700'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/jiyargol/status/1523736736894832640?s=20'> Reporter Zhiar Gol tweeted that Mansour Rasouli is in a safe house being monitored by the Intelligence Ministry, and he is not going to his own home. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49703'> <reference source='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNjga2qjFM'> Iran International aired a report about Mansour Rasouli which stated that he is a member of an IRGC team that intended to assassinate an Israeli citizen in Turkey, a high-ranking American general in Germany, and a journalist in France. Based on the report, his team uses a cooperative company named Dalapar to launder money and in return for its services to the IRGC, it is allowed to do illegal imports and exports. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49702'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3FY4lxy'> The Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA reported that the IRGC released a statement claiming that it has "arrested a network of thugs and hoodlums with ties to Mossad" and claimed that: > This network, guided by the intelligence agency of the zionist regime (Israel), was involved in robberies, destruction of private and public property, kidnapping, and taking fake confessions. The statement claims that the IRGC and Intelligence Ministry arrested the network. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49707'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=18201'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that the members of the team charged with working for Mossad are Kamran Hanareh, Vafa Hanareh, Ashkan Osmannejad, Fakhrolddin Doudkanlou, Aran Omari, Rahman Parhazou, Hassan Omarpour, and Amir Moshtagh. The report states that one of these individuals, realizing that they are getting arrested, had escaped the country to Turkey but was arrested by the Intelligence Ministry forces in Turkey and brought back to Iran. According to the report, getting a confession from an IRGC member Mansour Rasouli and setting fire to the vehicles of military leaders are among their charges. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49704'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=20617'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that the third branch of the revolutionary court of Urmia presided by Judge Najafzadeh, sentenced Nasim Namazi, Vafa Hanareh, Aram Omari Bardiani, Rahman Pahaz, and Mansour Rasouli to death on the charge of participating in espionage in collusion with Mossad. The court has sentenced Kamran Hanareh, Fakhroddin Doudkanou, Ashkan Osmannejad Gandouk, Hassan Omarpour, and Amir Moshtagh Gongchin to 10 years in prison on the same charge. The sources said that these 10 citizens were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry agents in Urmia and each spent several months in solitary under severe torture. ِThe report states that due to severe torture and threats against other family members and even rape, they were forced to confess to the crimes. But during the trial, they denied all the charges and reported that the confessions were taken under severe torture. The court convicted all of them even though some of them were denied access to an attorney. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='49706'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/?p=20557'> The case was sent to the supreme court after objections from the defendants to the ruling. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>